US Patent Issued to SiFive on June 23 for "Supporting multiple vector lengths with configurable vector register file" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,994, issued on June 23, was assigned to SiFive Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Supporting multiple vector lengths with configurable vector register file" was invented by Andrew Waterman (Berkeley, Calif.) and Krste Asanovic (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for supporting multiple vector lengths with a configurable vector register file. For example, an integrated circuit (e.g., a processor) includes a data store configured to store a vector length parameter; a processor core including a vector register, wherein the processor core is configured to: while a first value of the vector length p...